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How to lock down your phone if you're traveling to the U.S.

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Re: How to lock down your phone if you're traveling to the U.S.

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Post by akimbostrawman »

AstralStorm wrote: post #289
notahacker wrote: post #116

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A duress password that booted into an innocuous "safe mode" without access to your full browser and chat history would be a whole lot less likely to get you into more trouble than one which wipes the phone...

Unfortunately your phone may get backdoored in that scenario anyway if it's known to have that feature. In graphene and most Android phones with unlocked flashing, easily achieved in a few minutes. (Special recovery. It's hard to catch if done right.) There's no way around the wipe at least and better hope the bugger installed is not persistent in some firmware.

GrapheneOS explicitly supports and strongly recommendations locking the bootloader.

Re: How to lock down your phone if you're traveling to the U.S.

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Post by akimbostrawman »

kleiba wrote: post #113

> Before traveling, back up your devices so you don’t lose anything permanently. Then delete anything you’re worried about being misinterpreted or saved by the government. That can include conversations that compromise the privacy of the people on the other end. You might delete messages about politics, contact information for political dissidents, apps that save offline copies of sensitive documents like Google Docs…

Like most rights and laws they only apply if you are already in the country or a citizen.

They are still unreasonable searches enabled since and by the patriot act.

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Post by xingped »

gruntbuggly wrote: post #230
xingped wrote: post #176

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That businesses are allowed to surprise you with unexpected fees is a negative thing. How can you interpret it otherwise?

Don't you just go out to eat knowing the price is going to be 20% higher after tip? I can understand the desire for predictability, but menu prices are artificially low as they don't account for labor. If tipping were 'abolished' food service prices would have to rise 10-20% across the board to compensate.

I'm not talking about tips. You already get random super fine print 10-20% "service" surcharges on your bill at many restaurants. This is not the tip.

Re: How to lock down your phone if you're traveling to the U.S.

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Post by pseudalopex »

aftbit wrote: post #244

I wish Android had a better backup story. If you're using iOS, it's as simple as the article describes. If you use even modern Android on modern Pixel, backup only includes a fraction of what you need to recover. Things like Signal keys, 2FA tokens, and more were not included in my last backup. GrapheneOS had an opportunity to do this 1000% better... and they instead ship a kinda broken fork of SeedVault, which they…

iOS apps block backup of keys and tokens also. Android is the only platform where Signal supports message backup and restore.

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Post by 486sx33 »

lern_too_spel wrote: post #308
anon291 wrote: post #303

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Hmmm. And yet this is normal for entering just about every other country. The people being deported are those calling for genocide. Good riddance. You do not have a right to come to this country to organize a foreign country's wars.

We know that there are also Israelis calling for the genocide of Palestinians. None are being deported. I'd be willing to believe that some of the students being deported have called for genocide, but the government must produce evidence. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/court-tells-government...

This is untrue. No one is calling for genocide of Palestinians. They just need to evacuate the rubble caused by hamas and move to safer places

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Post by devilbunny »

LargoLasskhyfv wrote: post #273
devilbunny wrote: post #233

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They aren't, but I live in a hot, humid climate where it often rains. So a scooter is not the best there. And then my workplace is right on a highway - I can take lower-speed roads to get there, but even the slowest path involves 35 MPH roads (~55 km/h), and it's longer.

Goretex...

Yeah, it’s great, but what does that have to do with my comment?

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Post by redserk »

jncfhnb wrote: post #302
xingped wrote: post #176

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That businesses are allowed to surprise you with unexpected fees is a negative thing. How can you interpret it otherwise?

It’s just kind of silly to say “we have a tipping culture” in the same argument as “we just illegally deported a guy to El Salvador”

Come for the menial and absurd, stay for the flagrant anti-constitutional (in spirit) issues.

Re: How to lock down your phone if you're traveling to the U.S.

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Post by troyvit »

codethief wrote: post #195
troyvit wrote: post #18

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This would be useful beyond getting in and out of customs too. For instance, most people don't want to carry around a work phone and a personal phone, so we end up mixing two personas on one device, and it gets awful. For instance I keep two 2fa apps, one for work stuff and one for personal stuff. It would be so much easier if I could have a separate login that showed just my work apps. Like ... wouldn't it be nice t…

The ability to set up multiple user accounts has existed for a long time: https://support.google.com/android/answer/2865483?hl=en#zipp... Side note: The sibling comments talk about creating a work profile which is different in that it still lives within the same user account and is not fully isolated.

Holy cow thanks for sharing this!

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Post by WorldPeas »

dude187 wrote: post #314
WorldPeas wrote: post #296

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I'm surprised they'd let you do so in the claim luggage, but in this case it was carry-on. The story goes my mother just walked through customs and got on the plane with it.

Yeah carry on got the stupid liquid ban that's still around, but I don't think much if anything got banned from checked luggage after 9/11. Just the standard stuff like batteries and other things that could have issues in an unpressurized non temperature controlled hold. Even carry on got a lot better than it used to be in the days right after that. Like I'm pretty sure they had banned lighters for a bit (and a lot o…

it's kind of funny, my mini bottle of spray sunscreen got flagged, but carrying through a fullsize BP 95 v-lock tv camera battery did not, and it uses the large battery cells that are roughtly the size of a roll of silver dollars.
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